Texas’ junior senator in Washington, D.C., is causing quite a stir. This is nothing new, considering Ted Cruz has been doing just that since being sworn in January. Cruz has not followed the advice that freshman senators are there to be seen, not heard. And I, along with many other Texans, am glad he is defying conventional wisdom.

He now finds himself in the eye of the storm regarding the upcoming debate on the federal government’s continuing resolution — which will allow the federal government to operate for a bit longer (it appears D.C. has all but given ...

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Mr. Krause, a question if I may. If you want to defund the ACA then what are your plans to get the millions of Texans, and many millions more around the country health insurance?

Also, you're being extremely disingenuous about the UPS. UPS is not dropping spousal coverage entirely. They are dropping spousal coverage in the event that the spouse of the UPS employee has health insurance through their place of employment. If the spouse does not have insurance through their job, or if they are stay at home parents, then they can still receive the spousal coverage through UPS.

"Mr. Krause, a question if I may. If you want to defund the ACA then what are your plans to get the millions of Texans, and many millions more around the country health insurance?"

Why are we looking to politicians to take care of us and our families? Does the Healthcare system need a fix? Yes. But how about we let the free market do its part and allow insurance companies run a little more freely without a ton of regulation that causes bureaucratic quagmires. How about people stop using emergency rooms as the instant fix for minor ailments.

As a congressman, he will never have to worry about health insurence again, so it is no skin off his nose if millions have thier right to insurance taken away. He spins the facts to fool those who are too lazy to find out the truth. A$$ Hat

Dear liberals,Instead of speaking in slogans and mindlessly cheering your team, really think about what a monolithic, ultra-bureaucratic piece of legislation regulating business will do to your favorite little eatery or that quaint mom-and-pop shop you like. Make no mistake, Obamacare is a neo-liberal policy intent on furthering big corporate hegemony.

We're $17 trillion in debt to the chinese. This is no time to inaugurate an unaffordable, top-down, communist oligarchy to administer healthcare. Instead of "one size fits all" approach, we should incrementally make health insurance more competitive: Tort reform, cross-state products, HSAs, and etc. The result we're seeing with this Obamacare is that corporations are getting waivers, unions are getting special deals, and the insurance companies WHO LOBBIED YOUR LIBERAL P-O-S DEMOCRAT congressmen LINED THEIR POCKETS in a 2,400-page bill that no one read. Meanwhile the rest of us are seeing our health insurance premiums skyrocket. That is, the middle class is getting SCREWED. You have pissed us off and we're coming and hell's coming with us.

Matt Krause wrote an excellent argument. So well reasoned, in fact, that all the liberal loons of the Trib's Facebook wall can do is bemoan his youthful appearance. Defund the damned law and take our country back!

That's funny, only 7 percent of Republicans actually want to defund O-Care. (http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/320235-poll-defunding-is-least-popular-option-for-obamacare). I'll bet your uninsured constituents will love to know what you want to do in their name.

He still does not thoroughly explained how Obamacare hurts people, other than saying that businesses like "Forever 21" are hurting or drawing back on employment. A company in which I might add has a 3.4 billion dollar revenue system (2012) according to Forbes magazine. http://www.forbes.com/companies/forever-21/ And it is my understanding that if a company such as this one is laying off employees and using the reasoning of Obamacare as an excuse to cut back on paying hard working people, then its a big violation of the law to fire or lay off individuals who seek out work in general. To say you are going to cut hours or lay off people because you have not generated enough revenues is absurd. Again, Conservatives are using this (Obamacare) as a means to cut back or restructure/downsize, so they can continue to make profits without losing money to employees on such causes as health care/insurance benefits. But what Obamacare is doing is helping the SMALL business owner UNDER the 50 employment law,which states, you must provide insurance for your workers. A company like forever 21 is trying to downsize to save money for their 3.4 billion dollar company in order to keep more money for themselves. They can afford to pay insurance for their employees; its a matter of how many employees they can actually managed for the company within reasonable limits of operations is the question? Again, an administrative/executive issue they should have known how to deal with? Bad example from Rep. Matt Krause!

What's it to you if the feds want to offer access to health care to those who want it? TX isn't even involved in the Medicaid expansion. Why are you stopping your citizens from obtaining health care that you can't be bothered to help with?

I have no interest in anything the defunders have to say. But, thought I'd take a peek anyway at this guest column. And, as expected, I was disappointed. Yawn...same old, worn out talking points. The PPACA is the law of the land. It is done. This piece isn't even well-written. It's all over the place; no flow. And the intro is murky. Not to mention the horrible sentence structure in that first paragraph. I give this piece an F. Total fail.

Actually, when pollsters ask about defunding "Obamacare" people say yes because of lies and misinformation people like Krause have spread with the help of corporate media. But when you ask people if they like the individual provisions in the Affordable Care Act they like them ALL. Millions, including me, are already seeing benefits. More would if Texas would step forward and provide Medicaid expansion and full implementation of the provisions in the law. Stop with the Obamacare lies and misinformation. It's OUR care now that matters.